Hello Éric, On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 22:07, Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Micheal, > > I'm conscious that saying "dynamic POSIX clock device" without any > explanation may be too obscure for a man page. It's true that more detail would be nice, but... > There is documentation in: > - include/linux/posix-clock.h > - Documentation/driver-api/ptp.rst (explicitly states that EOPNOTSUPP > should be returned) (Is this a reference to the tack that I tweaked your patch to change EOPNOTSUPP to ENOTSUP?) > - include/uapi/linux/ptp_clock.h ... it's a bit of a stretch to call any of those documentation, since they don't really describe the concept of a dynamic POSIX clock device. > > (IEEE 1588 PTP is the canonical user of these dynamic clock devices) > > Would you want to refer to any of these from the man page? See above. I would be happy to add a 2 or 3 sentence note to the page that briefly describes the concept of a POSIX clock. Would you be able to come up with something? > Thanks for maintaining this project! Thanks. Though it has suffered a lot of neglect of late :-(. Cheers, Michael
